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TV Round-Up
Spaz
covered all the Canadian
goodies, as usual, in
his section below.
Johnny Moronic covered Dead
Point,
the most recent
adventure of Jack Irish,
in his own section
below. This is the
latest in a series of
Australian made-for-TV
neo-noir movies adapted
from the detective
novels of Peter Temple.
The title role is played
by Guy Pearce, who is
familiar to Americans
from his roles in L.A.
Confidential, Mildred
Pierce, The King's
Speech, Iron Man 3, and
many others. This
actually aired Sunday
evening in Australia.
(Sydney is 17 hours
ahead of Los Angeles.)
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Jack Snow covered the latest
adventure of Komissarin
Heller, Tod am
Weiher
Lisa
Wagner
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* Yellow
asterisk:
funny (maybe).
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White
asterisk:
expanded
format.
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* Blue
asterisk: not
mine.
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No
asterisk: it
probably
sucks.
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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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Jack
Irish: Dead Point
(2014;
Made-for-TV)
Kate
Beahan film
clip (samples below)
Marta
Dusseldorp film
clip (samples below)
Tess
Haubrich film
clip (no nudity, but
peekaboo lingerie;
samples below)
The
Sleeping Dictionary
(2003)
Emily
Mortimer film
clip in 1080p (collage
below)
"Secrets
and Lies"
(entire
series)
Johnny's
comments:
Well,
now that the series is
over, what can I say?
Secrets & Lies has
a fantastic,
gut-wrenching ending,
but it takes a helluva
lot of mediocrity and
melodrama to get
there. Ben Gundelach
(Martin Henderson) is
the marathon man,
always running,
desperately trying to
save himself by
accusing everyone
else, which make him
not only a
neighbourhood
favourite, but much
loved at home... To be
honest, Ben was never
going to be the
killer, mainly because
it would have taken
one massive twist to
make his actions
convincing otherwise.
There probably needed
to be more clues given
along the way as it
seemed to be lengthy
periods between decent
clues. The
ever-present detective
(Anthony Hayes),
Javert-like in Ben's
life, humouring Ben's
wild accusations,
wants to desperately
arrest Ben, but can't
find the evidence to
do so. The ending is
such a gut-punch, that
I highly doubt that
the American series
would go with it (I'm
happy to be wrong).
Looking through the
series again, that
character's behaviour
is something to
behold, far more
troubling than before
you know what they
did. It's shame the
series spends to much
time on the red
herrings, I'm sure it
could've been a bigger
hit, well maybe a
different network
would've helped.
And
I definitely didn't
pick the killer...
Adrienne
Pickering collages
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